The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-05
Tbe7 Measures Acted on Dur
ing the Session. 2i
LAWS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE
pi1s Which Were Signed Those Tha'
BECAME Law without Signing
and Those That Died.
Naws Of the Nation.

offbe constant increase in the volume
ofIegislation. demanding the attentio oii
If C6npress. which has been gong oH
for tbe last three or more congresses
NGoTe hills were introduced Hf .'Itu
bonees more committee reports GIG
mede more bills were passed, more ue-
came laws and more we're vetoed IMAM
oal-G hsfore Most of these measures
were OF
COMPARATIVELY LITTLE IMPORTANCE
srcb as the bills granting private
pensions and special .reliefs; authoriz-
ing the erection of bridges, granting the
-igbt of wav and the like-but many,
not onIv of the bills and reports pre-
eented hut of the laws enacted, were of
general interest and Importance. a
9umher of the bills enacted into laws
we're old and familiar claimants Tor
legislative favors. In this category be-
long the Presidential succession bill;
electoral count bill, Interstate com
MERGE bill; bill for the relief OF FItz-
John Porter.
the Capitol at II o'clock, actual time.
The clocks of the two houses were set
back.
The Senate adjourned, without day,
al 1l55 am, Senate time, or 1904
actual time.
The deficiency bill failed for want of
time to engross it.
The fertilization bill was abandoned
in conference.
The river and harbor bill failed to re-
ceive the Presidents signature. 1t
reached him several days ago, but was
pocket vetoed"
The FORTY-EIETH CONGRESS
commenced its session on 4th of De-
cember 1885, and was in session until
the 9Th of August, when it was ad-
iourned until December 9Th, and con-
tinusd in session until its close to day,
covering a total period of ten months
and twenty-siX days. OF this time the
Senate was in session 224 days and the
House 25l days. There were intro
duced in the House during this time,
1928 bills and 263 Joint resolutions, on
which over 5 900 reports were made, be-
ing several thousand more bills and
over thousand more reports than were
made in the Forty-eighth Congress
which had in its turn an unbeaten record
NTHE SENATE
there were introduced 8 1857 bills and lis
Joint resolutions, on which 1888 writ
ten reports were made, being upwards
of 500 more bills and over 400 more re-
ports than in the record breaking
Forty eighth Congress. The total num-
Der Of laws enacted was, approximately,
1881, Of which 1.093 originated in the
House and 33S in the Senate. Two hun
dred and sixty-four of these became
laws Dy the expiration of ten days limi-
tation. Fifty bills failed to become laws
owing to adjournment of Congress, one
Of them at the close of the first
session. There were 1872 bills vetoed
by the President, or twently-one more
Instances Of the exercise of presidential
prerogatlve of the veto than had &C.
Cured from the foundation of govern
ment down to the beginning of this
Congress. OF the vetoed bills, ninety
1our originated in the House and thirty
elght IL the Senate. But one private
Dill mat granting q pension to Joseph
homelSer, and one public bill, namely.
mat proviaing for the erection of
government buildings at Dayton,
uhlo, succeeded in passing both houses
over the Presidents veto; althou h
several others obtained the requisite
TWO thiTcs vote in the. Senate, only to
fail in the House.
THE DEATH ROLE
OF this Congress was also an extraor-
binary one, comprising the unprece
denied number of thirteen names in the
House and Senate.
But one election case was decided nv
the House against a sitting member
ana Congress was characterized nv
az absence of that acrimonious 0iscus.
awaken. u9U"iiS
" I,U5o house bills which became laws
70 were OF more or loss public nature.
VI me remaining us bill, granting
pension or relief to specially DESIGNATED
persons, l56 became laws with6nt the
approval Of the President. FOlloving
i me list OF the more important Hones
OILS, which have become laws:
10 forfeit the Atlantic Il Pacific Rail-
loe0 land grant; to increase the pen-
SS-oa Oh widows ana dependent relatives
-'olA = 10 Sl2 per month: to abolish
Cet.aiu ieeS for official service 10 Ameri.
"a vessels and to amend the SHINING
~" ri -..nsIey shipping bill: to amend
-S thurman act. (It REQUIRES Pacific
roaus 70 pay the COSTS of surveying and
iSsS IN. their land grants and sub
~ tLe land to taxation as soon as
ne ompanies are entitled to them. not
Is-g,A9tiba a the fact that they may de-
~. IHe SeIecuon); increase OF naval
Establishment. It was passed in The
ss my session OF the present Congress,
sro provides for the construction Of
sp pe Sarm n5 vessels of sixteen knots
yea ceal speed, one torpedo b m~St pt ond
the dynamite gun cruiser, and for
;, -e completion of the monitors Par.
To ~ Der .u siop ts Amphitrfts and Terror
70 imnosoo r me Mexican war veterans:
tactnEp.o Se tax and regulate the slanu3
taGon Is sale, importation and expoT-
Of tba Vi 2 sie; TO authorize the transfer
to the the E HlifhT0od tract near Chicago.
Poses; to n'I re. states for military pur-